I think there is a kind of love that you never asked me

Lennie 2021-12-10 08:01:39

Time flies, I have fallen in love with many women. When they hugged me tightly, they asked me if I would miss them. I will say, yes, I will remember you. But the only thing I haven't forgotten is the woman who has never asked me like this.

"The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" is the third movie of Giuseppe Tonadore I have seen. I have seen "Paradise Cinema" and "Sea Pianist" before, but I didn't pay much attention to the director until this time. In the film, I once again appreciate the strong and romantic Italian style that belongs to Sicily. I have to say that the unique charm of Tornadore lies in its ability to capture the shining points of inspiration from the familiar life scenes and experiences, and turn them into beautiful lights and shadows, which makes people more able to extract them while admiring and sighing. Philosophy.

Coincidentally, whether "Paradise Cinema" or "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", the movie explores and understands this complex and complex world from the perspective of a teenager, telling the story of playing the father in each boy's growth process. How important is that role or the woman who has a crush for the first time. It is no coincidence that these two works have become Tonadore’s masterpieces with similar backgrounds and narrative points, because Tonadore himself was also a Sicilian boy, and he entered the society with the dream of entering society very early, so whether it is " Duo Duo in "Paradise Cinema" or Renardo in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" can be regarded as the director's look back and nostalgia for his teenage years.

And "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" expands the rich layers of the movie with multiple story backgrounds and arouses endless flavors. The metaphor of politics, the interlacing of wars, the innocence of youth, and the greed of human nature. It is worth mentioning that Monica Bellucci, the actor of Marlena, is not only a typical Italian beauty, but also a "legal beauty." She studied law in her early years, hoping to become a lawyer and a part-time model to help students. She is proficient in multiple languages ​​and has performance experience in various countries. She is not only a stunning beauty, but also a rare talent.

The beautiful and dignified Malena walked gracefully on the streets and squares of the town, facing people's love, coveting, and jealous eyes, she lowered her eyebrows, calm and calm. But those deep eyes have already ignited the entire summer of Sicily. Love and desire, beauty and ugliness, Malena's dazzling beauty is like a magic mirror, reflecting the good and evil beauty and ugliness of everyone in the town. She is considered guilty, because in all secular views, beautiful women have always been sluts. People cannot tolerate or even imagine that a person's loyalty has nothing to do with what she has experienced. Even those who know this truth, and those who understand the innocence of beauty, are still driven by greed to become the devil. For example, the lawyer with a funny head like a koala and a pig-like smell on his body made his poem-like and generous speeches in court, but in order to secretly settle his dirty business. Such an ugly skin, such a despicable soul, was the first to blaspheme the beauty of Malena, and survival in this world is so humble and cruel.

Under Malena's magnificent beauty is also the soul of an ordinary woman, loyal to her love, looking forward to the return of her husband. She danced lonely with the photo of her husband in her arms. She sat on a chair with her head up and down her wet long hair. It seemed that the enthusiasm that was once had gradually disappeared as the years quietly passed. In fantasy, Renardo was lying on the ground, opening his mouth to catch the drops of water dripping from the tips of Malena's hair. He was longing for Malena's love. The design and conception of this scene in the movie interprets the inner worlds of the two characters extremely well.

After losing her husband, Malena always appeared in front of people in black, which was like a curse, but the world regarded it as a kind of charm. The light clothes lined up on the clothes rack are dancing in the wind like black butterflies. The boy stole Marlena’s black underwear frantically. When found by his family, his mother snatched it and burned it like a viper. At this time, the boy’s sister said, how beautiful, can you give it to me? NS? In the so-called old morals, beauty has always been regarded as the original sin, and the desire caused by beauty will lead people to sin. However, people are always unable to understand beauty and appreciate beauty with the correct attitude. On the contrary, the taboos and closures of beauty are met with stronger contradictions and resistance, and they suffer from the consequences.

An elegant and beautiful woman, a well-educated woman, because she was a widow, she lost her qualifications for employment. I am afraid that none of the men who are hired do not have any intentions against her. The women behind the hirers are even more jealous and hate her beauty for fear of threatening their own interests. Therefore, Malena, who has lost any asylum and cannot get any job opportunities, is forced to become a prostitute to survive. This reminds me of Ruan Lingyu's "New Women". Women with knowledge and independence are still unable to obtain their due rights and respect in society. Malena's dazzling red hair, the flames of countless men around her lighting her cigarette, seemed to burn people's hearts. After cutting off her long hair, Malena changed her past gentle and reserved. Although she had to succumb to a cruel fate, she despised the men who regarded her as a plaything from the bottom of her heart. Her eyes became sharp and energetic, and a force rose from despair. She had never been so confident as she is today, proudly showing her beauty in front of others. This is not so much a kind of degradation, as it is a weak woman's unyielding resistance before fate, with a temperament of "slow wind and cold water".

How pitiful is a woman who has lost the asylum of a man. Even if this asylum is only nominal, even if her husband is on the battlefield thousands of miles away and the life or death is unknown, people still recognize the woman's right to belong and are jealous, so this woman is temporarily saved. Once the nominal husband is declared dead, the woman will be turned into a slut because of her widowhood. But the group of women who violently beat Marlena to vent their anger did not have a husband who blamed their prostitutes. It seems that marrying a chicken and a dog and a dog is right. Although they know that they are married to an animal, their interests are also Since then, tied up with these beasts and helpless, so it is not surprising that such a woman is more vicious than the beasts.

In the end, Malena returned to the town to regain her dignity, not because of herself, but because of the "resurrected" husband beside her who never abandoned her. She was once again sheltered. It can be seen that there is no more respect for a woman than to respectfully call her Mrs. XX. This is the luck of Malena, but it is also the sadness of women. Today, in those exotic countries that are rich in beautiful women, beauty pageants are an economy, and beautiful women are still a product. Just like the nose ring of a married woman in India, the original definition is the same as that of a livestock, which confirms her belonging and warns others not to infringe. Maybe I am a bit extreme. For all feminine decorations, such as makeup, manicure, piercings, etc., I also think that they are beautiful, and once they hinder my freedom, I would rather have no long objects.

Compared with many Malena in reality, the ending of the movie is a great success. In the war years, people's helpless actions were only to survive, but when the war ended, they fell victim to politics and suffered humiliation and abuse. Perhaps their husbands will never return, and what awaits them will be cruel imprisonment for the rest of their lives. The scene of Malena being beaten up reminds me of the female philosopher in "City Square" who for the first time predicted that the earth's orbit might be an oval shape. She died of political and religious disputes and was smashed to pieces by manic Christians. In front of the Roman temple. It also reminds me of Wang Minjia in "Wuwen Xidong", a young woman's love for beauty and her little vanity produced by her admiration for the leader was tortured by the blinding and distorted world of human nature in the context of the Cultural Revolution. Dying. The scars on the face, the cracks in the bottom of my heart, the tangible and the intangible, can they heal and recover as before.

What is it that influences human nature? Can human nature evolve with civilization? There does not seem to be a positive relationship between the two, and perhaps how to measure the degree of civilization of an era and society remains to be discussed. What I feel is that human nature is the sum of all individuals' actual feelings and feedback on social survival and life.

At the beginning of the movie, I was deeply impressed by the fragments of the teenagers tracking an ant with a magnifying glass. The ant eventually burned to death because of the focused body of the sun. The teenagers didn't think it was a sin, but instead felt that they had sent it out of the sea of ​​suffering. The boring and ignorant herd mentality is just as irritating as everyone goes, because "always like this" is moral. However, what we tend to overlook is that not only do we hurt the innocent because we have always been like this, but we also become slaves because of self-paralysis and loss of self-consciousness. Because of "always this way", I just accept it, because "always this way" is taken for granted, because "always this way" is lazy and stagnant.

Why are there more and more extreme violence incidents? In addition to individual factors, the negative drive from the influence of family background and social atmosphere is the more important deep-seated reason. Not only women, but all people living in this society are inevitably forced to accept the so-called spiritual rape because of the absolute rights and resources still in the hands of a very small number of people, and the authority to maintain this social order is not It may be measured by an absolutely fair balance. The infringement of women as the weak is only the result of the last incident and is by no means the source of the problem. Therefore, it is very one-sided to simply emphasize feminism and increase the contradiction and opposition between the sexes. If the problem is not solved from the transformation of social physique and the depth of ideology and spirit, all kinds of extreme crimes will form an irrepressible vicious circle that will continue to be forbidden. No matter how a new type of female self-defense tool, it is only in the last link to make the last weak and possibly ineffective resistance. What is a real civilization in an era and society may be difficult to describe, but I believe that in a truly civilized era and society, women’s equality and freedom are fully realized. Every woman can make good use of her beauty. Every man knows how to respect and appreciate the age and society of female beauty.

It is a unique way to show the tortuous life of a beautiful woman from the perspective of a teenager. Because of Malena's beauty, Renardo felt the passion and love of youth for the first time, and wanted her to protect her and cherish her. The movie uses secret secret love as a clue, and interprets the eager and sincere love of teenagers with every rush of riding a bicycle, every prying and anticipation in the middle of the night. He witnessed her suffering and pain, but suffered and blamed himself because of his weakness. He longed to be able to give her support like an adult. He finally realized his desire to wear long trousers because of the accidental death of the leader. He was allowed to sit in the barber seat of an adult to cut and shave. So happy and proud. Although facing reality, the young Renardo seemed weak and cowardly, but he always guarded her and cherished her in spirit. Although they haven't had any intersection or relationship, he is the only person in this small town who loves her. Countless fantasies about her, countless dates in her sleep, she knew nothing about everything, but it was so real.

In fact, there were only two real encounters between Renardo and Malena. Once I saw her come over expectantly, but she still passed by and walked straight in front of him. It turned out that what she was really looking forward to was the person who brought her food, and she had fallen into a desperate situation of betraying her body and mind for this poor food. Once at the end of the film, Malena's handbag dropped and the orange rolled to the ground. Renardo finally had a reason to move forward, perhaps his entire adolescence was waiting for this extraordinary moment that seemed to him brilliant. Even if I can only help you a little bit, I am still willing to give up everything, always ready to go all out, just approaching you for such an unintentional opportunity. He resented and spurned this world. With the courage of a young man, he sent a letter representing the last gleam of hope for Malena's husband. But she didn't know what kind of confession the young man was behind a simple blessing. Perhaps it was because she knew nothing about it that she was destined to be so profound in his life that she couldn't express it in words.

Another question this film poses to people is that the relationship between love and sex may be as confusing as humanity and civilization. Like the father in the movie who took his child into and out of the brothel because of his sexual maturity, although this kind of education is not correct, boys who have such a father might all express their envy. Decades ago, sex was almost a secret to an absolutely taboo topic, but decades later, sex has become a common topic for people no matter how new it is, it is even a necessary conversation material for harmonious interpersonal relationships. This calmness makes me feel weird, what kind of an era of rapid change and confusion. To be too open to sex is to overemphasize the existence of human beings as animal sex, and overemphasize that it is a kind of indulgence produced by a normal desire. If love and sex are completely separated, people will not be ashamed of sex, because it is nothing but a transaction that can be materialized. As a human, this is undoubtedly a regression to animal nature, and it ignores that in addition to various animal physiological needs, the more important thing is affection and love. If a person’s love and sex are connected, he must have a heart of shame and control his desire with emotion, because he knows how to respect and does not want to hurt, and because of how sacred and secret love is to a person, how? It can be spread like a joke in public so easily. But the state of the world is just the opposite. There are screens of swear words on the Internet. Some people are proud of their personal history, and they are eye-catching to imitate. All sorts of dirty and messy monsters emerge in endlessly.

Perhaps at the end of the film, Renardo’s words will make us feel the shock and emotion from love again: the years are rushing, I have fallen in love with many women, when they hug me tightly, ask me if I miss them . I will say, yes, I will remember you. But the only thing I haven't forgotten is the woman who has never asked me like this. He seems to be telling us that from a male perspective, love begins with sex and is higher than sex. It's not that what you can't get is always the best, but that a love that accompanies you through the only time of youth. The most difficult thing in life is the original aspiration that has never changed. Only in this way can you truly respect and cherish the truth, goodness and beauty of this world.

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Extended Reading
  • Jensen 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    The ugliness and beauty of human nature

  • Maxwell 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    I was tragically just staring at the heroine's figure from start to finish.

Malena quotes

  • Renato's Father: [regarding Renato's incessant and loud masturbation sessions at night] You are going to go blind!

  • [last lines]

    Renato Amoroso: I pedaled as fast as I could... as if I were escaping from longing, from innocence, from her. Time has passed, and I have loved many women. And as they've held me close... and asked if I will remember them I've said, "Yes, I will remember you." But the only one I've never forgotten is the one who never asked... Malena.